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  • How can we reduce conferences’ carbon footprints?

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    Editors’ Note: This is one of two posts by leaders of the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability. You can get involved by attending the Green Meetings Working Group Session on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. In what ways do you think your travel to the […]

  • What is "sustainable public history"?

    Sustainability is an increasingly attractive concept that resonates across disciplines and many facets of public life. A quick Google search turns up over 69 million results, including “sustainable development,” “sustainable seafood,” “sustainable performance,” “sustainable capitalism,” “sustainable travel,” and my favorite, “sustainable dance club.” Yet as William Cronon reminded us in his keynote address at the […]

  • From #MeToo to systemic cultural change: a public historian’s call to action

    The #MeToo movement has shed light on the widespread prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, including in scholarly and professional communities. The last two years have shown us that the public history community is no exception.

  • Get your wind farm off my historic site: When visions of sustainability collide (Part 1)

    Off the east coast of Southern Sweden, a battle is raging between competing visions of sustainability.  On the most unlikely of battlegrounds, bucolic Öland island, a desire to promote renewable energy has brought local officials committed to promoting a sustainable society into conflict with island residents, preservationists, farmers, environmentalists, and local business owners who believe […]

  • The history I practice

    Recently, I went with a group of friends to see Yoga:  The Art of Transformation at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC. The exhibition includes representations of yoga practice in sculpture, painting, icons, and illuminated manuscripts across 2,000 years. Yoga originated as a radical religious practice, one originally designed to help practitioners transcend […]

  • “The Pride Guide”: Where the personal meets the professional in public history practice

    Editors’ Note: This post is the second of two History@Work pieces inspired by the current special issue of The Public Historian: “Queering Public History,” Vol. 41, No. 2. You can read additional LGBTQ reports from the field in this NCPH ePublication, which complements The Public Historian issue and these blog posts. When the National Park Service (NPS) released […]

  • What's your NCPH story? A year-end reflection

    […] from teaching and work to gift-giving.  As in most years, my shopping includes making financial gifts to organizations I support.  In the past, I’ve focused on political advocacy and service groups rather than professional societies like the National Council on Public History.  I’ve tended to believe I’m already doing enough for them when I […]

  • A seasonal ranger ponders "The State of History in the National Park Service"

    The NCPH/OAH conference brought to light a subject near to my heart this afternoon – history in the NPS.  The panel consisted of Marla Miller, Gary Nash, David Thelen and Anne Mitchell Whisnant.  On the docket was the discussion of their report on how the NPS stacks up in the history department.  I have to […]

  • How much do public historians care about issues of environmental sustainability? (Part 2)

    Continued from Part 1 Despite their widespread encounter with issues of environmental sustainability in public history practice and a heightened concern about them, most respondents (54 percent) noted that their training in the former derived from individual study or interest rather than formal education. A full quarter of respondents have never received training in the […]

  • How much do public historians care about issues of environmental sustainability? (Part 1)

    As part of its ongoing efforts to facilitate greater mutual accommodation between sustainability and public history imperatives and to better define the NCPH’s role in that process, the NCPH Task Force on Sustainability and Public History conducted an online survey during September of 2013. Responses were invited via the H-Public listserv, the weekly Public History […]